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Non Life Sciences => Physics, Astronomy & Cosmology => Topic started by: thedoc on 28/02/2013 18:55:43

Title: Would you send your parents to Mars?
Post by: thedoc on 28/02/2013 18:55:43

Inspiration Mars, a private company founded by former space tourist Dennis Tito, hopes to send a manned craft to fly past Mars in 2018...

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Title: Re: Would you send your parents to Mars?
Post by: Pmb on 01/03/2013 20:24:47

Yes. If there were alive that is.

Title: Re: Would you send your parents to Mars?
Post by: Pincho on 01/03/2013 23:05:22

Probably not this flight...

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn23230-mars-trip-to-use-astronaut-poo-as-radiation-shield.html (http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn23230-mars-trip-to-use-astronaut-poo-as-radiation-shield.html)

Title: Re: Would you send your parents to Mars?
Post by: CliffordK on 03/03/2013 09:12:18

A year and half just to do a "flyby"?  And not even get a chance to walk around on the planet?  That sounds ambitious. 

It is my belief that trips should be volunteer one-way colonial missions.  But it would take a tremendous amount of support and planning first to design the habitat structures, greenhouses, and etc.

Title: Re: Would you send your parents to Mars?
Post by: yor_on on 07/03/2013 17:12:27

Get rid of grumpy old grandma?
Is that it?

Wouldn't Bahamas be cheaper?
And more suitable for a retirement?